Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Special Branch , very violent treatment was meted out in the foyer to the men removed by the Black-shirts ; the police intervened just in time to prevent serious injury . |
| 2 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 3 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 4 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 5 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 6 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 7 | Jenny was helping out in the newsagent-cum-sweet-shop in the village . |
| 8 | Between 1905 and 1916 the fundamental texture of Nizan 's psyche was traced out in the drama enacted in the Nizan household by its three principal characters : Clementine Nizan , nee Metour , cast in the role of mother and wife , Pierre Marie-Joseph Nizan , cast in the role of father and husband , Paul Pierre Yves Henri Nizan , cast in the role of only son . |
| 9 | But a gate was broken down in the frustration and many spectators , mostly from Cardiff , got in without paying . |
| 10 | Kuwait and the UAE in particular were reported to have exceeded their quotas during 1989 , and it was pointed out in the press that apart from these two countries , together with Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia , the other eight OPEC members were currently producing at or around their ceiling capacity , so that any further additions to output would come from those five major Gulf producers . |
| 11 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
| 12 | We wish to apologize to him , and make it clear , as was pointed out in the article , that he is a man of the utmost integrity who is a good example for kids today . |
| 13 | As was pointed out in the judgment , ‘ In some contractual relationships , for example life assurance and pensions schemes — some aspects of the law regulating conditions of employment , and … various state-run schemes such as national insurance ’ , 35 it is ultimately a matter for the parties concerned whether the individual should be treated as a man or a woman . |
| 14 | The whole poem , at this stage as was pointed out in the section on Wordsworth 's creed uses language ambiguously , though it must be obvious that he does believe in ‘ something out there ’ . |
| 15 | Clarissa said she was glad she had n't known he was walking about in the open . |
| 16 | One day , Mildred was walking along in the park it was very , very hot and she was very , very tired ! |
| 17 | But uncle was to creep down in the night and abuse the little girl he was giving shelter to . |
| 18 | The little man was ambling along in the middle of the street , looking around him with an expression of keen interest . |
| 19 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 20 | Waller 's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire . |
| 21 | Now there is a whole ocean between John and me , Ianthe thought , but soon she was caught up in the bustle of landing . |
| 22 | He , too , was caught up in the excitement for jazz and with Bobby and other students went down to the Red Barn at Barnehurst , a half-hour run from Charing Cross , to hear George Webb 's Dixielanders , the band that pioneered the New Orleans revival in Britain . |
| 23 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 24 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 25 | In 1979 as a hospital worker , she was caught up in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 27 | Although he admits there were ‘ times it felt like farce — chasing a guy through the woods who was chasing the ghost of his dead father ’ , Bradley nevertheless says there were moments when he was caught up in the atmosphere . |
| 28 | A railway worker , also making his way home , was caught up in the riot and , as a result of baton blows , was deafened in one ear and had to have sixteen stitches to his head . |
| 29 | The Southampton defender was caught up in the passion of Boro 's FA Cup-tie at Portsmouth last week . |
| 30 | She was caught up in the drama of a big story . |